It is well
they learnt to travel quickly, because the lake is very wide and
distances are great. Often there are sudden, violent storms, which
would overturn a clumsy boat. The carving on the boats and the
beautiful reed-work on the chiefs' houses were different from the work
of other African tribes. When people begin to try to make things
beautiful as well as useful it is a sign that one day they will become
wise and great.
3. Europeans Come to Uganda
In the old days the Baganda, like other African people, thought there
were spirits in all the rivers and lakes and trees and everywhere,
which could help or hurt men. The chief spirit they feared and to
whom they offered sacrifice was the spirit of their lake, Victoria
Nyanza. Their witch-doctors told the people when they thought this
spirit was pleased or angry. These witch-doctors were often bad and
cruel, and really cared more about getting all the power they could
over the king and people than for anything else. Sometimes they said
that people must be killed as a sacrifice to the Spirit of the Lake.
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